“The early focus on a holistic public led to the movement of ‘racial hygiene’ which appeared in 19th century Germany. A historian of public health, Dorothy Porter, explains that the movement considered ‘the health, not only of individuals, but of the race as a whole.’ The trend was also called ‘social hygiene,’ and spread to other countries. It reached its zenith under the Nazis. In his fascinating book, The Nazi War on Cancer, Robert Proctor mentions some Nazi slogans: ‘You have the duty to be healthy,’ ‘Food is not a private matter,’ ‘Your body belongs to the nation.'”
http://lfb.org/today/how-to-use-public-health-to-control-everything
Related posts:
School Has Become Too Hostile to Boys
How the CIA Helped Disney Conquer Florida
Wendy McElroy: Death by Methodological Individualism
John Hussman: Judging the Future at a Speculative Peak
Southern Slavery: Two Systems of Management
Will Grigg: The Protected Predator Class
Bill Bonner: The Coming Bull Market in Gold Stocks Is Going to Be BIG
Is America Too Big?
Choosing the Best Possible Life
The US Imperium, Coming Dollar Difficulties and Investing Abroad
David Galland: Scenarios
The World’s Greatest Investor is Dead Wrong
Roger Ver: Why Bitcoin is Important for the World
Economic Darwinism and the Next Financial Crisis
The Ultimate Privacy Protection: Foreign Real Estate